Saint. Also known as Ercenwald, Earconwald, Eorcenwald and Erconwald. Born at Lindsey, Lincolnshire. He helped establish two Benedictine abbeys; Chertsey Abbey for men and Barking Abbey for women. His sister, Aethelburg, was abbess of Barking, while he served as abbot at Chertsey. Bishop of London 675 - 693. His remains were interred in the old St Paul's Cathedral.
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Saint Erkenwald
Barking Abbey Was founded by St Erkenwald in the year 666. Destroyed by the D...
The Batterea 'manor' at this time was an area mainly laid out as strip fields...
From the National Archives : "St John House was founded in 1848 as a 'Training Institution for Nurses for Hospitals, Families and the Poor'. It was a religious community run by a Master, who was a ...
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
British antiquary and collector. Curate at St Botolph without Bishopsgate 1851-8. Rector at St Pauls West Hackney 1872. Member the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Linnean Society and the Roy...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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